Another way of doing a side plank which is slightly more difficult than with the knees bent is to keep the knee straight. What you want to do is keep the hip knee and ankles in the same alignment you want to keep your body in a neutral posture and then what you do is you're going to lay like he is right now and you're going to lift your hips up off the table and you're going to maintain that position for as long as possible preferably up to about 30 seconds. You can relax, what's very important when doing the side planks or any exercise for that matter is always work within your comfort zone, so what happens is if you're able to do it with the knees bent and that's as far as you feel comfortable start there if you feel like you can do with the leg straight. Start there the goal is to get about 30 seconds in if you do five or 10 seconds and that's all you're comfortable doing. Start there if you stay consistent guaranteed within a month two months. Your strength will build up your endurance will build up and the time that you'll be able to do it will build up and that core will start to get stronger on you.

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